Ep. 31 All the Book Recommendations with Heather John Fogarty

Our guest this week is journalist Heather John Fogarty, whose work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Marie Claire Magazine, Playboy, and more. Heather previously worked as the wine and spirits editor at Bon Appétit. In today’s conversation we talk about Heather’s James Beard vote, how finding a editor for a novel is like dating, and a book that made both of us very angry. Get ready, Heather is a prolific reader, your TBR will never be the same.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

BOOKS

• Mozza at Home by Nancy Silverton and Carolynn Carreno
• There There by Tommy Orange
• The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
• Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
• Elsewhere, California by Dana Johnson
• My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
• The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
• The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
•  The Milkman by Anna Burns
• The Mirage Factory by Gary Krist
• The Stranger Game by Peter Gadol
• Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
• Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonia Vargas
• Fight No More by Lydia Millet
• Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
• Octavia E. Butler
• Ray Bradbury
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
• Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora
• The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú
• To the Bridge by Nancy Rommelmann
• The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia by Philip Sidney
• The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
• Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
• The Amazing Bone by William Steig
• Who Was Babe Ruth? by Joan Holub
• Who is Michelle Obama? by Megan Stine
• Ninjago Books
• Another Country by James Baldwin
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• Joan Didion
• Dana Johnson
• Paul Beatty
• Philip Roth
• Virginia Woolf
• Lucia Berlin
• Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
• In the Not Quiet Dark by Dana Johnson
• Jaws by Peter Benchley
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Locking Up Our Own by James Foreman Jr.
• Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
• Evicted by Matthew Desmond
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• Hey Little Ant by Phillip and Hannah Hoose

EVERYTHING ELSE

• Chi Spacca
• Mozza
• Nancy Silverton
• Carolynn Carreño
• Bon Appétit
• Vogue
• Vanity Fair
• Harper’s Bazaar
• James Beard Foundation Awards
• Gwen
• Langer’s Deli
• National Book Award Finalists
• Man Booker Prize Shortlist
• Flywheel Sports
• Daniel Pearl
• Chevalier’s Books
• Jaws (Universal Pictures)
• The Godfather Trilogy (Paramount Pictures)
• Nancy Rommelman

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